Kate
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I want to put in a plug for taking your backpack off on the train and holding it by your side. People with backpacks are whacking everyone and taking up more space than they realize. Backpacks should come off unless there’s a health condition that prevents it.
It could be some Y2K style that’s back in again! You should find it and figure out what it is and maybe get several hundred bucks for it.
The one I bought last year in the Chanel store when I got a promotion, is a “mini,” which does hold its value and costs nowhere near what that large one costs. But it’s big enough to hold a phone, keys, sunglasses, and other small items. I have had no issues with quality and I LOVE it. It’s the “1955” style that Coco Chanel designed. It’s very versatile, you can wear it in the day as a crossbody, and it also looks great at night as a shoulder bag either with the chain long or doubled up short. It’s Kelly green, which surprisingly goes with almost everything. People most want black, but my wardrobe is very colorful, or I wear neutrals that look good with green. I would only wear a black bag in winter, but green works year round.
Having had it a year, I would say go for it if you have money earmarked or get a bonus. You absolutely do not need it, but it’s a beautiful thing and you would get a ton of wear out of it if red accessories work with your wardrobe. I love trendy things too, but for a bag I want classic style.
I got into buying designer bags around 10 years ago when I had money to burn from commission checks. I did some trial and error first with pre-owned bags, then I bought some new. I bought the classic styles that have been around since the 1930s or 50s, and I’m still very happy with my small collection and wouldn’t sell any of them.
I think what’s happened in the past few years is 1) huge ridiculous price increases because companies didn’t like it that non-affluent people could buy their bags during the pandemic, 2) declines in quality, 3) influencers making young people feel like they need the new hot trendy bag that costs $4k, 4) super fakes, 5) Gen z keeping the pre-loved market going, and basically a lot of people have said fuck it to new designer bags.
A Chanel bag is now TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS and the quality is not there. They sell for half that online so they’re not a good investment anymore. If you really want one, buying used or better yet vintage is the way to go. Or the rich NY women are just buying the super fakes.
Baguette bags, Copa. Made popular by Carrie Bradshaw.
I have the lululemon DUPE bag from Amazon and it’s a great hands-free bag for sightseeing or errands and stuff. I wear it across my chest. It is half the price of the original and comes in 20+ colors.
The Shark flex style is supposed to be able to do everything just as well as the Dyson Airwrap for about half the price.
Wendy, you’re lucky af! But yeah, if volume is what you want, the Airwrap or shark is it. It injects serious, lasting volume into your hair, and perfect waves or bouncy blowout look. And then if you put it up at night with a scrunchy and take it down in the morning, it will be even more lifted.
My mom has hair kind of like yours I think, with wave and it’s not as frizzy as mine. She does everything possible for volume because she has less hair than she used to, but she’s not gonna buy an Airwrap. She uses hot rollers or puts her hair up on top of her head to dry with root lift, depending on what she’s going for. She uses foams and mousses too.
I’m really sorry to hear about your mom, Miss MJ. That’s much too soon.
I don’t know if you can think of her going right on and still being herself and if that would give you any peace. And that everything she gave you is still there with you. She’s in your heart.
There’s also an area on the 9th floor we call the Crying Corner. And every Wednesday at 4:30 I have a scheduled bitch session with two women no longer on my team.
Oh shit Anonymousse, I’m sorry.
Basically every day I’m talking people down who want to rage-quit, but in this market and this industry, pretty small world, and some of us really needing the benefits, we just can’t. I’ve never had a boss before who had issues like this one, and if anyone here ever wants to talk about how to deal with a whackadoo, I’m available.
I do have a car, but my commute now consists of just one T (subway) train, which is amazing. And we’re still just required to go in one full week a month, all in the same week. That’s going to change in the fall, likely to 2 weeks back to back but no one knows for sure. The not knowing is hell for parents. Early warning signs that this isn’t working, some moms at work are starting to take lengthy leaves of absence. It’s just, however they were swinging this before the pandemic, it’s no longer working for them. Part of it I know is getting reliable child care. I obviously don’t have kids, but there is no way I could do that. This job is so intense, and the week we’re in the office physically even more so, with having to go to things at night too, you cannot do it unless you have a stay-at-home spouse handling everything. Seriously. Women are starting to get crushed. We have a female CEO, albeit with grown kids and she’s astronomically wealthy, but still, she’s got to understand this. It’s not okay.
That sounds like a bitch of a commute. I had a job in the past where I had to drive from just north of Boston to just south, so you could either go through the city on 93 which was a fucking joke, or go whatever crazy way Waze would have you go through like 5,000 different back streets trying to wind your way there. And then you had to pay for parking. I did that for almost a year and it was HORRIBLE. And so nerve wracking worrying about hitting a cyclist or pedestrian. We moved and I could take a bus from our new place, and that was such a relief. There was this bonkers woman on the bus who would voice-dial everyone in her family every morning and no one would pick up, or if they did they’d be like, Michelle, I have to go. She called the pharmacist one time and told them all her personal info including full name and address. And she’d talk about her period and stuff if she did reach someone on the phone. Once this trans person asked her to move her bag so they could sit down next to her. She told them this wild story about how she’s an artist, which she definitely was not, and then she said she’s thinking of becoming a man! The person was like, oh, uh, this is my stop. I used to live-stream about this bud ride on my stories.
